We need to mitigate and contain the environmental impacts; provide assistance to the Gulf's commercial and recreational fishing industries; ...
It might come as a surprise to some people in this room, but I want to commend President Obama for his speech on the oil spill last Friday.
They show up on our drilling rigs regularly, unannounced, they conduct thorough inspections of the drilling rigs.
We will also discuss the concept of ocean acidification.
I believe, enormously difficult, and it could go on, as some of the previous speakers mentioned, it could exceed Exxon Valdez.
Of course, there is a storm season in the Gulf when the hurricanes generated across the Caribbean tend to sweep through.
But once it starts rolling up on those beaches, in Panama City and those white beaches, in Alabama and Mississippi and New Orleans, then the...
This source is continuing to gush out at 5,000 barrels a day. And that impact, none of us will really know, can fully understand.
I worry that this is another attempt to enact a climate change regime without one single vote of this Congress.
I hope the witnesses will discuss what we really do, and perhaps most important do not know about oceans.
Our oceans are a precious resource, and we should take appropriate steps to ensure they are protected.
I agree with you that our prayers are with the families and loved ones that were lost.
I believe their actions made America more dependent on foreign oil, from countries that have few environmental restrictions.
I implied, and I really believe that you guys, your time would be better spent right now down there trying to contain this mess than it is u...
I thought that that pretty much had worked.
These efforts were out there, and you have been, does that imply, that would imply to me that you have been complying with the recommendatio...
I still stand by the statement that I would rather you go ahead and get that done. Then the blame game can take place later.
Because the very individuals who complain about earmarks are the ones who vote for the very largest, multi-hundred billion dollar bills.
